1、白云中学2011-2012学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题卷 （选择题，满分70分。请把答案填涂在答题卡的相应位置上。）一、听力（共两节，满分17分）第一节 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Read at home loudly. B. Go to the library. C. Talk with her neighb
2、or.2. What does the woman think of living off-campus?A. Its cheap. B. Its convenient. C. Its expensive. 3. Where will the man probably go for his holiday?A. To a zoo. B. To a farm. C. To a park.4. Why didnt the man watch the football match?A. He had to look after his mother.B. His mother didnt allow
3、 it.C. He preferred a soap opera.5. How can the man join the sports club?A. By paying 20% of the expense. B. By buying products under the brand.C. By applying on the Internet first.第二节 （共12小题；每小题1分，满分12分）听下面对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题, 每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给
4、出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第68题。6.Where does the conversation take place?A. At home. B. Outside a house.C. Inside a factory. 7. How will the woman help the man?A. She will ask the neighbor to come. B. She will wait for the phone call for him.C. She will say something to calm him down.8. Why is th
5、e man so nervous?A. Hes missed an important phone call. B. Hes failed to answer the phone several times. C. Hes been waiting for an important phone so long. 听第7段材料，回答第911题。When will the football competition probably end?A. On August 11th. B. On August 17th. C. On August 24th.10. Where will the footb
6、all competition be held?A. In the speakers school. B. On the citys square. C. In the citys stadium.11. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The speakers often have football competitions.B. The woman will join the game as an audience.C. The boys competition will be held in the afternoon.听第8段材料，
7、回答第1214题。12. What kind of room does the woman want to reserve?A. One single room. B. One double room. C. Two single rooms.13. How much does the woman pay?A. $15. B. $19. C. $90.14. What does the man think about the price of his hotel?A. It is cheap. B. It is standard. C. It is expensive.听第9段材料，回答第15
8、17题。15. What is the passage mainly about?A. TV programs. B. Speech contest. C. Meeting arrangements.16. What has happened to the first speaker?A. He has been in hospital. B. He has been ill. C. He has won a contest.17. What can we learn from the passage?A. The Youth Theater Group will give a perform
9、ance at 9:30. B. Todays meeting has been put off till tomorrow afternoon. C. Dinna Dekkers after coffee discussion will be held in Room 201.二、单项填空（共16小题；每小题0.5分，满分8分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。18-How do you like the film?-_.A. It couldnt be better. B. It depends. C Never mind. D. No.19.
10、 We are looking forward to_a chance to watch the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.Agive Bbe given Cbeing given Dgiving20. With no one to_ in such a frightening situation，she felt very helpless.Aturn to Bturn on Cturn off Dturn over21. I cant give my son the leading position. _, he i
11、s too young; secondly, I want Mr. Smith to have the job.A. After allB. First of allC. Above all D. In all22. The stamps were _ according to their styles and features.A. found out B. sorted out C. put out D. taken out23. Look! The houses _.A. is being built B. are building C. being built D. are being
12、 built24. Some people waste food，_other people havent got enough to eat.Awhen Buntil Csince Dwhile25. The farmers suffered a heavy _because of the terrible storm.A. zone B. harm C. loss D. insect26. I would _it if you would let me deal with this by myself.A. appreciate B. inspect C. protect D .repla
13、ce27. We want to sit at the table near the window.Im sorry，but it_ already.Ahas taken Btook Cwas taken Dhas been taken28. I am a stranger here. So the city isnt familiar _ me.A. with B. by C. in D. to29. Every student is required to watch the teacher carefully before _ the chemistry experiment.A. pe
14、rforming B. taking C. picking D. having30. We_ the old scientist_ his contribution_ the country.A.admire；for；to B.admire；at；to C.respect；on；for D.respect；on；at31. I feel really disappointed not to have got that job. Dont worry. Maybe something better will _.A. go by B. take on C. turn up D. fall dow
15、n32. The man _ you are talking is in the next room.A. to whom B. about whom C. who D. whom33. -Where is my pen?- I _it.A. might lose B. wouldnt have lost C. should have lost D. must have lost三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race.
16、My job was to 34 water to the runners. I remember being so 35 to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I 36 up
17、 for the race.That first 10,000m race was quite an experience . I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked 37 , I didnt know if I could finish. Then came a defining (决定性) 38 .At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt 39 because I was 50 years younger than h
18、e but I couldnt even keep up with him. I felt 40 for a second.But then I realizedsomething. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had 41 abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my 42 was only to finish.After a minute, it 43 me that this was a lesson I
19、 could draw from. I learned something about myself in that moment. I turned my embarrassment into 44 .I decidedthat I would not give up on running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare 45 and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who wer
20、e still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my accomplishment. In life we all have those moments where we 46 ourselves to others. Its only natural . Dont allow those moments to 47 you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you
21、 can improve your result to 48 anything you want in life. 34. A. bring out B. pass out C. take out D. pick out35. A. excitedB. worried C. concerned D. anxious36. A. gave B. made C. signed D. dressed37. A. At times B. In timeC. In all D. After all38. A. victory B. decision C. moment D. conclusion39.
22、A. embarrassed B. annoyed C. moved D. thrilled40. A. relaxed B. defeated C. puzzled D. inspired41. A. special B. evident C. common D. different42. A. motto B. plan C. goal D. direction43. A. worried B. hit C. reached D. hurt44. A. attraction B. devotion C. inspiration D. expectation45. A. slightly B
23、. hardly C. clearly D. properly46. A. introduce B. relateC. present D. compare47. A. weaken B. wound C. amuse D. cheer48. A. reserve B. deliver C. achieve D. abandon四、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）第一节：阅读下列短文，然后从4964各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。AIncreasingly, over the past ten years, people- especial
24、ly young people have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, especially processed food(加工过的食品), is not good for the health. As a result, there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do not contain chemical additives(添加剂) and which
25、 have not been affected by chemical fertilizers(化肥), widely used in farming today.Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic matter. In simple words, this means that the soil has been nourished(给营养) by unused vegetable matter, wh
26、ich provides it with vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amountbut not the qualityof foods grown in commercial farming area.Natural foods also include animals which have been allow
27、ed to feed move freely in healthy pastures(牧场). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry(家禽)：there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this
28、way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins. There are other sides of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually unnecessary food. It is not that sugar is ha
29、rmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no mineral
30、s, and no fibre.49. People have become more interested in natural foods because_.A. they want to keep healthyB. they want to taste all kinds of foodsC. natural foods are more delicious than processed foodsD. they want to return to nature50. Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following E
31、XCEPT that _.A. they are fed on food which is little better than garbageB. they live in very crowded conditionC. the eggs they produce lack vitaminsD. they are allowed to move about and eat freely51. According to the passage, _.A. people can only find sugar to give them energyB. sugar is bad for the
32、 healthC. the use of sugar is habit formingD. sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing usefulBFor the most part, you are probably only exposed to the music that is played on your favorite radio stations and TV shows, music Web sites, or the music that your friends and family members en
33、joy. While you probably know a lot about your favorite type of music, it can be a rewarding experience to enlarge your horizons (眼界), discovering artists and types of music that youre not familiar with. Who knows, you might discover you like certain types of music you never even considered. Have you
34、 ever wondered about the history and influences of your favorite types of music? For example, did you know that rock n roll originated (起源) from the blues, and that the blues began as a form of musical expression for African Americans during slavery(奴隶制度)? Did you know that most hip-hop is heavily i
35、nfluenced by early rhythm blues and jazz?There are many fun ways to learn about different musical styles and their historical roots. For example, if you like hip-hop, listen to some of your favorite CDs and take note of the samples the performers used to create the songs. There is a possibility that
36、 the artist used parts of older songs to create the music. You can go to the library or online to learn more about the artists and listen to more of their music by checking out CDs from the library or downloading songs online for a small fee. You can learn so much about culture and history just by p
37、aying attention to different types of music and what is being expressed in the songs. There are so many different styles of music to learn about, and you owe (欠) it to your-self to make an effort to listen to and learn about them.52. The main topic of this passage is _.A. creating musicB. performing
38、 music C. enjoying your favorite music D. learning about music53. What music did African Americans use to express their feelings of being slaves?A. Rock n roll. B. The blues. C. Hip-hop. D. Jazz.54. How can you learn about culture and history through music?A. By writing down the names of the musicB.
39、 By creating music from older songs yourself.C. By caring about what is being expressed in music.D. By keeping a record of fees after downloading songs online.55. By saying the underlined sentence in the last paragraph, the author probably means that _.A. you should try harder to learn about musicB.
40、 you should return something to musicC. you should borrow music CDs from othersD. you should buy music CDs yourself CThere once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local people. He would open his shop at 8:00 a.m. after having his breakfast and at 1:00 p.m. he wou
41、ld go for lunch. In the evening at 8:30 p.m. he closed his shop to complete his daily routine.However, to get time for lunch was really difficult be-cause he didnt have anybody to help him at that time. Therefore, it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1:00 p.m. would be a
42、sked to oversee (看管) the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunch. One day, a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunch. One of the thieves went at 1:00 p.m. to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop.The thief, pretending to be a customer,
43、 went in at 1:00 p.m. and started buying several items. As planned, the shop-keeper asked the thief to sit on his chair for thirty minutes until he returned from lunch. Then, the other three thieves quickly came and told the pretend customer to help, but something had changed within him and he knew
44、deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perform any dishonest acts during that time. His friends did not agree. As the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted (抵抗) and a fight started. And at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why the
45、re was a fighting. The now honest man explained the entire plan.The shopkeeper had been searching for an honest man who could take ownership of the shop and run it. The shop-keeper felt that he had found the right man.56. What is the problem for the shopkeeper?A. Nobody could prepare lunch for him e
46、very day.B. He had nobody to keep the shop when he went for lunch.C. He was too busy to have lunch every day.D. He couldnt find a person to work at the shop.57. Why did the thief go to the shop at 1:00 p.m.?A. Because he thought he would be asked to keep the shop.B. Because the shopkeeper invited hi
47、m to lunch then.C. Because the shop was closed at that time.D. Because he thought he could buy cheap things then.58. When the shopkeeper returned from lunch, he found _.A. everything in his shop was stolenB. the thief became the new owner of the shopC. there was a fighting in his shopD. the thief he
48、lped his fellows steal things from his shop59. From the passage, we can infer that _.A. once a thief, he will always be a thiefB. an honest man will be responsible for his actionC. you cant believe in a dishonest man foreverD. trust can change a thief into an honest man第二节：阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从A、B、 C、D和E中
49、选出最适合放入短文空缺处的选项。选项中有一项是多余的。DWhen you make a mistake, big or small, cherish it as the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is. 60 . Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad. And we are reminded that we should try to avoid mistakes. Weve been scolded whe
50、n we make mistakes at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. 61 . We dont really consume information and instantly know it or know how to do it. Instead, we get in
51、formation about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually; then we construct a model in our mind, test it out by trying it in the real world, make mistakes, revise the model based on the results of our real-world experimentation and repeat, making mistakes, learning fr
52、om those mistakes, until weve pretty much learned how to do it well. 62 . If you succeed at something, its probably something you already knew how to do it. You havent really grown much from that success at most its the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up
53、 of mistakes. By trial and error, we try out new strategies and make new discoveries, thus leading to higher payoffs. So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. 63 A. Just think about how we learn.B. Everyone can make mistakes in their life.C. Mista
54、kes are how we learn to do something new.D. It is natural that we are in a bad mood when we make mistakes.E. Mistakes are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.卷II （非选择题 满分30分）五、单词拼写（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）64. While reading, please pay much a_ to your pronunciation65. Many rare animals
55、 are in d_, because they are being hunting for.66. To be h_, I dont like your hairstyle, for it is quite strange.67. A special machine was made to s_ difficult problems. 68. If we combine health with a balanced d_, we will be full of energy every day. 69. He expressed it in the _ （形式）of music. 70. T
56、hey achieved their _ (目标)of increasing sales by five percent.71. The government insists that the plan will not do any_(伤害) to the environment.72. You should a_ （道歉）for your rudeness to the teacher in the class.73. With the governments aid，those_(影响)by the earthquake have moved to the new settlements
57、.六、按照课文内容填空（共10小题; 每小题0.5分，满分5分） 阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中动词的适当形式。However, there was one band that 74_ (start) in a different way. It was 75_(call) the Monkees and began as a TV show. The 76_ were to play 77_ on each other as 78_as play music, most of 79_was based loosely 80_the Beatles. The
58、TV organizers had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an 81_in a newspaper 82_(look) for rock musicians, 83_they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.七、短文改错（共10小题; 每小题0.5分，满分5分）假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，假
59、设下文是你同桌写的作文。文中有10处错误，请你按下面的要求在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写上该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从11处起)不计分。例如：It was very nice to get your invitation to spend/ weekend with you. Luckily I was the amcompletely free then, so Ill to say “yes”. I
60、ll arrive in Bristol at around 8 pm in Friday evening.onNowaday more and more people dream of be famous, and the internet has become a new approach to this. On the Internet, many young people may be familiar to a group called “Backroom boy”. The group caught peoples eye because its funny perform. Th
61、ey just pretend be singing while in fact the sound is made by the original voice from video. When asked why they do this for the first time, they said,” We like playing jokes to each other. There were some foreign videos online, looks very funny and interested. So we decided to make our own. Just fo
62、r a fun.八、书面表达（满分15分）2011年5月1日起全国实施室内公共场所禁烟，为此，你校学生对学校周边的部分室内公共场所禁烟的情况进行了调查，结果发现，约40% 的室内公共场所仍有吸烟现象。假如你是李华，请你用英文给21世纪报的编辑写封信，内容包括以下要点：1简要描述调查结果；2说明吸烟对健康的影响；3提出具体的禁烟措施或建议。注意：1词数100-120左右；2信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。参考词汇：现象phenomenon Dear editor,A smoking ban（禁烟令） in all indoor public places in China, such as
63、hotels and restaurants, has taken effect（生效） since May 1st, 2011, but the survey we have recently conducted shows that_ Best wishes! Yours Sincerely Li Hua 高一英语期中考答案第II卷 （非选择题 共30分）五、单词拼写（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）64. attention 65. danger 66. honest 67. solve 68. diet 69. form 70. goal 71. harm72. apologize 7
64、3. affected/influenced六、按照课文内容填空（共10小题; 每小题0.5分，满分5分）74. starrted 75. called 76. musicians 77. jokes 78. well 79. which 80. on 81. advertisement 82. looking 83. but八、书面表达（满分15分）One possible version:Dear editor: A smoking ban in all indoor public places in China, such as hotels and restaurants, has t
65、aken effect since May 1, 2011, but the survey we have recently conducted shows that the phenomenon of smoking still exists in about 40% of the indoor public places around our school.As we know, smoking is harmful to health. It contributes a lot to lung cancer, of which many people have died in the p
66、ast years. Whats worse, it can also cause many other diseases. Not only smokers themselves suffer from these smoking-related diseases, but also non-smokers around them have to breathe tobacco-polluted air.For the sake of our health, “no smoking” signs must be put up in indoor public places so that smokers can be kindly reminded not to smoke there. In addition, those who break this rule should be strictly punished by law. However, the most important is that every one of us should improve the awareness and take the responsibility to carry out the smoking ban.Best wishes! Yours Sincerely